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10 best books like Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (Alberto Manguel): The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, Tail of the Blue Bird, The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories, Thirst, The Granta Book of the American Short Story, Maybe This Time, Stained Glass Elegies, Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism, Hidden Camera, Seven Houses in France

The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe
AuthorAndrew O'Hagan
ISBN0151013721
Meet Maf: The hilariously opinionated, well-read, politically scrappy, and complex canine companion to Marilyn Monroe.

In November 1960, Frank Sinatra gave Marilyn Monroe a dog. His name was Mafia Honey, or Maf for short. Born in the household of Vanessa Bell, brought to the United States...
Tail of the Blue Bird
AuthorNii Ayikwei Parkes
ISBN0224085743
Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Here, the men and women speak the language of the forest, drink aphrodisiacs with their palm wine and walk alongside the spirits of their ancestors. The discovery of sinister remains; possibly human, definitely...
The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories
AuthorWilliam Trevor
ISBN0192801937
What began simply in Ireland as entertainment and communication through the spoken word soon grew into an extraordinary literary form unmatched in any other country. The Oxford Book of Irish Short Stories triumphantly demonstrates the development of the short story in Ireland--from the early folk...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
The Granta Book of the American Short Story
AuthorRichard Ford
ISBN1862071098
The Granta Book of the American Short Story is a selection of the best works of American short fiction published in the last 50 years. Stories featured here include “A Day in the Open” by Jane Bowles; “Blackberry Winter” by Robert Penn Warren; “O City of Broken Dreams” by John Cheever; “The...
Maybe This Time
AuthorAlois Hotschnig
ISBN0956284051
A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbors. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling...
Stained Glass Elegies
AuthorShūsaku Endō
ISBN0811211428
The arresting beauty of Shusaku Endo's fiction is best known in the West through his highly acclaimed novels The Samurai and Silence. His consummately wrought short stories, with their worlds of deep shadows and achieved clarity, are less familiar. The dozen stories of Stained Glass Elegies, selected...
Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
AuthorHans Fallada
ISBN0141195800
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me...
Hidden Camera
AuthorZoran Živković
ISBN1564784126
From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theatre, he discovers that there's only one other person...
Seven Houses in France
AuthorBernardo Atxaga
ISBN1555976239
A brooding novel of colonial intrigue in the Congo, from the author of The Accordionist's Son and Obabakoak

The year is 1903, and the garrison of Yangambi on the banks of the Congo is under the command of Captain Lalande Biran. The captain is also a poet whose ambition is to amass a fortune and return...
The Brothers
AuthorAsko Sahlberg
Translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah

"I sensed that motherhood was terrible, perhaps sweet at times, but above all terrible. Not because one human child would be more horrendous than another, nor is it so that offspring cannot bring joy when little and be useful...
Why Translation Matters
AuthorEdith Grossman
ISBN0300126565
Why Translation Matters argues for the cultural importance of translation and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator’s role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, “My intention is to stimulate a new consideration of an area of literature...
Vain Art of the Fugue
AuthorDumitru Țepeneag
ISBN1564784215
Clutching a bouquet of flowers, hurrying to catch his bus, and arguing with the driver once he's on, a man rushes to a train station platform to meet a woman. This sequence of events occurs and recurs in remarkably different variations in Vain Art of the Fugue.


In one version, the bus driver...
Scenes from Village Life
AuthorAmos Oz
ISBN0547483368
Strange things are happening in Tel Ilan, a century-old pioneer village. A disgruntled retired politician complains to his daughter that he hears the sound of digging at night. Could it be their tenant, that young Arab? But then the young Arab hears the digging sounds too. Where has the mayor's wife...
Men in Space
AuthorTom McCarthy
ISBN1846880335
Set in a Central Europe rapidly fragmenting after the fall of communism, Men in Space follows a cast of dissolute Bohemians, political refugees, football referees, deaf police agents, assassins, and stranded astronauts as they chase a stolen icon painting from Sofia to Prague and beyond. The icon’s...
Hate: A Romance
AuthorTristan Garcia
ISBN0865479119
In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm and won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships, and love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals--Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism--come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois,...
From the Fatherland, with Love
AuthorRyū Murakami
From the Fatherland, with Love is set in an alternative, dystopian present in which the dollar has collapsed and Japan's economy has fallen along with it. The North Korean government, sensing an opportunity, sends a fleet of rebels in the first land invasion that Japan has ever faced. Japan can't cope...
Das Muschelessen
AuthorBirgit Vanderbeke
ISBN3596137837
Angespannt wartet die Familie am gedeckten Tisch auf den Vater. Mutter, Tochter und Sohn sitzen vor einem Berg Muscheln, die allein das Oberhaupt der Familie gerne isst. Um die zähe Wartezeit zu überbrücken, beginnen sie miteinander zu reden. Je mehr sich der Vater verspätet, desto offener wird...
Stories They Wouldn't Let Me Do on TV
AuthorAlfred Hitchcock
ISBN0848819853
Contains the following:
Preface by Alfred Hitchcock
Being a Murderer Myself by Arthur Williams
Lukundoo by Edward Lucas White
A Woman Seldom Found by William Sansom
The Perfectionist by Margaret St Clair
The Price of the Head by John Russell
Love Comes to Miss Lucy Q....
The Conquest
AuthorYxta Maya Murray
ISBN0060093609
Sara Rosario Gonzáles is a restorer of rare books and manuscripts at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. When Sara restores a sixteenth-century manuscript about an Aztec princess enslaved by Cortés and sent to Europe to entertain the pope and Emperor Charles V, she doesn't realize the power of the tale...
The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise
AuthorGeorges Perec
ISBN1844674193
A long-suffering employee in a big corporation has summoned up the courage to ask for a raise. But as he runs through the looming encounter in his mind, his neuroses come to the surface: What is the best day to see the boss? What if he doesn’t offer you a seat when you go into his office?

The Art of...
Modern Japan: A Very Short Introduction
AuthorChristopher Goto-Jones
ISBN0199235694
Japan is arguably today's most successful industrial economy, combining almost unprecedented affluence with social stability and apparent harmony. Japanese goods and cultural products--from animated movies and computer games to cars, semiconductors, and management techniques--are consumed...
The Romantic Dogs
AuthorRoberto Bolaño
ISBN0811218015
Roberto Bolaño (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging...
Tales of Death and Dementia
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1416950257
Stories of lost love, lost ways . . . and lost minds. Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, and macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. This second installment of illustrated Poe tales, a companion to Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness, includes...
Detective Story
AuthorImre Kertész
ISBN0307266443
As readers, we are accustomed to reading stories of war and injustice from the victims’ point of view, sympathizing with their plight. In Detective Story, the tables have been turned, leaving us in the mind of a monster, as Nobel Laureate Imre Kertész plunges us into a story of the worst kind, told...
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